The first step to learning continuously is admitting you don’t know everything. I was guilty of thinking that in chapter 1 all of it would be on review and I didn’t need to study. I took a quick quiz in the book to see how I would do, and it turns out I didn’t remember a lot of information. Needless to say I didn’t do well. In order to compensate for that quiz and in fear of doing bad on the formative quiz I asked classmates questions on how to round and how to find the average atomic mass of an element. I would look at certain math problems and ask myself to what significant digit would this be to or to how many decimal places should I round this problem if I was adding. By applying other life problems to what I was doing in science, I was learning continuously, and it all started with admitting that I didn’t know everything. Humility is a big part of admitting your weaknesses and what you don’t understand. If you never are willing to admit that, then you will never be able to take full advantage of all the resources around you. Because I asked my classmates around me when I was confused on a concept, I was able to do well on my formative quiz. The quiz was not graded, but to me it was a product of humility and humbleness. We will never know all the answers, but if we are willing to admit we don’t we can learn from others what we don’t know.
Learning Continuously
The first step to learning continuously is admitting you don’t know everything. I was guilty of thinking that in chapter 1 all of it would be on review and I didn’t need to study. I took a quick quiz in the book to see how I would do, and it turns out I didn’t remember a lot of information. Needless to say I didn’t do well.
In order to compensate for that quiz and in fear of doing bad on the formative quiz I asked classmates questions on how to round and how to find the average atomic mass of an element. I would look at certain math problems and ask myself to what significant digit would this be to or to how many decimal places should I round this problem if I was adding. By applying other life problems to what I was doing in science, I was learning continuously, and it all started with admitting that I didn’t know everything.
Humility is a big part of admitting your weaknesses and what you don’t understand. If you never are willing to admit that, then you will never be able to take full advantage of all the resources around you. Because I asked my classmates around me when I was confused on a concept, I was able to do well on my formative quiz. The quiz was not graded, but to me it was a product of humility and humbleness. We will never know all the answers, but if we are willing to admit we don’t we can learn from others what we don’t know.